Engineering
Over the last ten years, global demand for concrete has grown three-fold and for steel two-fold. Both are responsible for approximately 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), 75% of which is associated with buildings ...
Feb 3, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
About 12% of the total global energy demand comes from heating and cooling homes and businesses. A new study suggests that using underground water to maintain comfortable temperatures could reduce consumption of natural gas ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Using Berlin as a case study, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) have compared the composting of leaf litter with its energetic utilization in biogas plants. The study ...
Nov 3, 2022
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Business
To limit pollution and traffic congestion in Beijing, officials in 2011 imposed a citywide restriction on the number of automobiles residents can purchase annually. That policy has helped limit car sales and emissions. But ...
Jun 8, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
,Governments and companies worldwide are increasing their investments in hydrogen research and development, indicating a growing recognition that hydrogen could play a significant role in meeting global energy system decarbonization ...
Oct 22, 2021
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Engineering
A team from Cornell University's Environmental Systems Lab, led by recent graduate Allison Bernett, has put forth a new framework for injecting as much information as possible into the pre-design and early design phases of ...
Feb 26, 2021
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Software
University of Stirling researchers have trained ChatGPT to produce faster versions of a software program. Making software run faster and more reliably is challenging and time-consuming for software developers.
Dec 12, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
A machine learning model developed and tested by researchers at UNSW City Futures Research Center may be able to better equip policymakers with knowledge and data about predicted neighborhood change—and with better predictive ...
Jan 30, 2023
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Business
Tapping the potential of geothermal energy could offer a way to repurpose inactive oil and gas wells, according to a University of Alberta experiment looking at the economic feasibility of heating drinking water for cattle.
Nov 4, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A research group including Professor Hasuo Ichiro of the Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics, Dr. Waga Masaki, Assistant Professor of the Department of Informatics ...
Apr 29, 2024
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